Post-Uni Reflection

So it finally looks like University is finished (other than a brief end of year tutorial tomorrow). Even though I've technically been finished for a few weeks now I had a tonne of work to do recently but I think I can finally say I'm 100% finished.

So how come I was busy? well, I was lucky enough to be nominated for "Best CG Artist" at this years Glammies (the end of year show at my uni) and even luckier to win which was a massive honour. The level of talent displayed at the show was amazing and the first years did a really great job with their stings, all in all it was a really entertaining show, and really topped off an awesome three years.

I've uploaded the showreel that was shown at the show, but I'm quite keen to avoid calling it my "industry showreel" because there is certain stuff I want to take out, and certain stuff I want to keep before calling it my final showreel. Primarily I want to add some matchmoving stuff, but more on that later.




It's weird no longer being a student, but it's also really awesome having the opportunity to do some personal stuff while I'm looking for a job. It's always kinda hard to get back into more creative stuff after you've finished more technical orientated work, and it feels so nice to get back into Zbrush or Photoshop after weeks of shading, rendering and compiling work. I'm hoping to do some daily Zbrush sketches just to get back into the flow of things as well as updating this blog more regularly.

Over the next few weeks I'll also be helping a new local company called Irontown Interactive on something they're planning. It sounds like a pretty cool project and I'll be able to upload all the stuff do. It'll also be nice to have a solid deadline to keep me on my toes. As well as this I want to have a go at some matchmoving, it's something that I've been told big film studios are always on the lookout for - as most juniors will enter the studio as a matchmover and progress to their desired field from there. I've been looking at the transformer tutorial from Digital Tutors and I'm thinking of doing something similar, perhaps just a short clip of a mech walking down a live plate street. I bought a chrome ball for a probe and I'm really excited to have a chance to use it.

So to summarise, next few weeks should be pretty fun :)